Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · vessel

White cross-lined ware vase with plant designs

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Description

Pottery, paint

AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06

Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A red pottery vessel with geometric designs.

This artifact is a tall, narrow vessel made from red pottery, featuring incised geometric patterns likely intended for decorative purposes. The patterns are simple and repetitive, covering the surface of the pottery with lines and chevron shapes.

decorative Predynastic good
Materials pottery

Connections

Materials Pottery

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116279864 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 12.182.16 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 547276 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
  • Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.